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New evidence of the late Antiquty abrupt climate fluctuations recorded at selected archaeological sites located on north-east Adriatic coast

Within project Roman Economy in Dalmatia (RED) extensive geophysical and geoarcheological survey was carried out in Podšilo bay (Lopar, island of Rab), Plemići bay (Near Zadar), and at St. Martin site and in the environs of St. Peter - Soline on the island of Krk. As a result of this research, many Roman structures have been discovered. All of them are located near the sea shore, like workshops and other kind of buildings. It is very interesting that all of them were covered by immense mass of the slope sediments. In fact, archaeological material in the vast majority of cases is displaced and intermingled, suggesting that the landslide processes have been initiated already in the distant past. However, the basic question remains when these processes were initialized, this is especially true for large-scale mass movements that have been identified in Plemići bay area. Without additional research (including radiocarbon dating), it is not possible to answer this questions at the moment. However, it is worth mentioning that in all of the studied profiles with landslides, sediments only contain fragments of ceramics from the Roman period, which may suggest that the intensification of the mass processes took place at the end or after the Roman period, but before the middle Age time, and probably should be linked to so-called 1 Bond climatic episode, which is dated to ca. 1.5 ka BP.

Northeastern Adriatic ; late Antiquity ; paleoclimate

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